The Painter and the Prince Who Cannot Be Painted novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The King's Boat
The King's boat reached the landing at first light.
Do-yun watched it from the gate, with Gyeol at his shoulder.
The gate stood wide open, and its broken chain lay coiled in the grass where the sergeant had left it.
Nobody had told them to keep out of the lane.
Nobody had told them anything at all.
"Hold still," Do-yun said.
Gyeol looked down.
"I'm not moving."
"Your collar."
Do-yun reached up and straightened the open neck of the faded indigo robe, and smoothed the bruise-colored mark he had left under the collarbone.
His fingers lingered there, on the warm pulse.
Gyeol caught his hand and pressed the ink-stained fingertips to his mouth, one at a time, as he had the first time Do-yun had ink on his hand.
"If he kills us," he said, "it was worth it."
"He won't."
"You don't know that."
"No," Do-yun said. "But I painted your mother's nose on your face. She'll shout at him."
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